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New Delhi: The average selling prices (ASPs) of smartphones continued to rise for the fourth consecutive quarter in India, hitting an all-time high of $211 (nearly Rs 16,323) in the January-March quarter, on the back of increased prices both for existing and newly launched devices, a new report showed on Monday. MediaTek-based smartphones had a […]
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The metaverse will allow users to work, meet, game and mingle in these three dimensional spaces. Metaverse will change everything we know about our lives; the way we eat, the way we play games, the way we hang out with our friends or the way we work. We’ve all seen movies like Matrix, Black Mirror […]
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the further proceedings pending before the High Courts across the country on petitions challenging the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (IT Rules, 2021) and the Cable TV Networks (Amendment) Rules 2021. A bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and Abhay S Oka […]
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New Delhi: Gaming lovers went through a rough patch when Microsoft Xbox services suffered a massive outage that stopped them from launching Cloud games. Microsoft later fixed the issue that lasted for several hours late on Sunday. The Xbox Live outage stopped some players from launching cloud games, playing digital games and making purchases from its […]
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New Delhi: Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Monday sent another cryptic tweet about his death under “mysterious circumstances”, a post which his mother Maye Musk did not like at all. If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin ya — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2022 “If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s […]
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By Aditya Deshbandhu This review comes amidst the unique transformations at Square Enix, a production house known for games like Tomb Raider, Hitman, Avengers, and Deus Ex and for studios like Eidos, Crystal Dynamics, and IO Interactive; as it chose to sell its western studios last week in the pursuit of blockchain and NFT gaming. […]
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San Francisco: Elon Musk-run Tesla has sued a former engineer for allegedly stealing “confidential and tightly guarded” secrets related to supercomputer technology. The Verge reported, citing court documents, that the electric car-maker has sued Alexander Yatskov for downloading the confidential information to his personal devices which he declined to give back. Yatskov violated company’s policies […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Apple, which disabled the ability to change the playback speed in third-party apps using the Apple Music API and its content with iOS 15.4, has now decided to reintroduce that feature with iOS 15.5. The word comes from Apple developer Joe Kun, who took to the Apple Developer Forums to announce that […]
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New Delhi: Bitcoin on Sunday witnessed another round of free fall, slipping below $35,000 per coin, as the global crypto market went through a massive slump of over 4.5 per cent in the past 24 hours to $1.66 trillion. All cryptocurrencies were weighed down as central banks globally tried to control inflation by raising interest rates. […]
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San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk expects Twitter to earn almost $10 billion in revenue from subscriptions by 2028, a projection that doubles the $5 billion in total revenue the platform made last year, as per a report from The New York Times. In a pitch deck viewed by the Times, Musk gave investors a […]
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New Delhi: Let us take a break from the buzz around metaverse and find out what actually happened to the virtual reality/augmented reality (VR-AR) boom that got eyeballs a few years ago, as people began to experience real-world scenarios in three-dimension (3D) via wearable headsets. Adopted by the gaming and entertainment sectors, AR-VR headsets once […]
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San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has warned that Twitter staff may face ‘extreme’ workloads if he takes over the micro-blogging platform. While replying to an earlier tweet he shared about his plans for the micro-blogging site, he mentioned that he will still graft even harder than them to make the firm a success. “Also, […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft has open-sourced the code for the 27-year-old programme, 3D Movie Maker, after a user asked for it on the micro-blogging site Twitter. Foone, whose Twitter profile said they are a “hardware and software necromancer”, asked the tech giant for the source code to the programme so they could expand and extend […]
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Washington: American billionaire Elon Musk, the founder of electric car-making company Tesla and spacecraft manufacturing company SpaceX, intends to quintuple Twitter’s annual revenue to USD 26.4 billion by 2028, media reported on Saturday. The New York Times cited Musk’s pitch deck presented to investors as saying that he would quintuple Twitter’s revenue to USD 26.4 […]
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Washington: Spotify’s radio-like listening app stations will not be available anymore. As per TechCrunch, Spotify Stations, the streaming service’s lightweight listening app offering easy access to curated playlists, will shut down on May 16. “At Spotify, we routinely conduct a number of experiments to create better listening experiences for our users. Some of those tests […]
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San Francisco: Meta has announced to integrate Horizon Venues — an app dedicated to attending live events in virtual reality with its main social VR platform Horizon Worlds. People over 18 in the US and Canada who have access to Horizon Worlds on Quest 2 will be able to access Venues programming in the Horizon Worlds […]
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San Francisco: Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek is investing $50 million into his own music streaming service, saying that the “best days are ahead”. Spotify’s stock jumped more than 3 per cent to reach $108.98 per share after the announcement came late on Friday. “I’ve always been vocal about my strong belief in Spotify and […]
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San Francisco: A judge has reportedly dismissed a lawsuit by former US President Donald Trump seeking to lift his ban from Twitter. But, San Francisco federal district court Judge James Donato left the door open for Trump and other plaintiffs to file an amended complaint against Twitter that is consistent with his written decision to […]
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San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed that Twitter will focus deeply on hardcore software engineering, design, and more, following the completion of the acquisition of the micro-blogging site. The Tesla CEO also mentioned that he strongly believes that all managers in a technical area “must be technically excellent”. “If Twitter acquisition completes, the company […]
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San Francisco: With an aim to make the messaging platform more user friendly, Meta-owned WhatsApp has announced that it is rolling out new features, including emoji reactions, bigger files and groups. The company said that it is slowly rolling out the ability to add up to 512 people to a group, which, till now, allowed […]
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Beijing: Observation of lunar soil brought back by China’s Chang’e 5 spacecraft has shown that soil on the moon contains active compounds that can convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and fuels, according to scientists. The team at Nanjing University in China found the sample contains compounds – including iron-rich and titanium-rich substances – that could […]
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San Francisco: Despite a strong track record with his other business ventures, tech honcho Bill Gates said that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk could potentially make the micro-blogging site Twitter a ‘worse’ platform. According to CNN, Gates sounded a note of caution on Musk’s $44 billion takeover deal of Twitter, saying Musk “actually could […]
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San Francisco: Micro-blogging site Twitter has announced that Spaces hosts and co-hosts can now have access to analytics on both iOS and Android platforms. The micro-blogging site said that it is also making it easier for users to follow Spaces hosts. “Hosts and co-hosts on iOS and Android will now have access to analytics like […]
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San Francisco: Several iPhone users found themselves in a fix when the Apple Music iOS app began installing itself directly to the iPhone’s dock when downloaded, instead of the home screen, thus booting out other apps including music streaming service Spotify. The bug impacted different iPhone models, kicking out other apps in the dock at […]